Kangna Ranaut Quotes

Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Even at church, people would not shake my hand.

We remain the saddest little district of the world, the most miserable people of the world, losing our own persona and not being able to take on anyone else's, torn away and not accepted, alien to all and everyone, including those with whom we are most closely related, but who will not recognize us as their kin. We live on a divide between worlds, at the border between nations, always at a fault to someone and first to be struck. Waves of history strike us as a sea cliff.

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

I have experienced things that I think many Canadians have gone through - the feeling of not belonging, the feeling of being a victim, of being hurt, being marginalized.

At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the cool kids, not in the club - when you're that person, it makes you feel smaller, and when they persecute you as a result, that's a difficult position to be in.

When you walk into a room, and you're the only one of something - the only woman or the only African American - that immediate feeling of loneliness happens.

The black geeks of the world, we feel like we don't have a home.

I am invisible in gay bars.

Being asked, "Where are you REALLY from?" It makes one feel OTHERED.

When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

Sudan is not Arab enough for Arabs and not African enough for Africans.

I suppose when you are an outsider, you will always be an outsider.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I'm constantly seen as a 'foreigner,' and I need my passport to prove my identity, to keep moving and to carry on my work.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I fell through a crack for years. Historically, I am a nothing because I fit in no category. I can only be me.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.